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Patented pMay 10, 1927,

PATENT OFFICE;

GEORGE V. GAVA'ZA, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

sIrHoN HOLDER.

Application led August 11, 19'26. Serial No. 128,586. v

ThisI invention relates to a .siphon which includes a tivrs'tblcconduit', adapted to be bent to forni a longer and a shorter Siphon leg.and a .neck connecting the legs.

The object is to provide a siphon holder of simple construction wherebythe neck/portion may be conveniently engaged with a container, andprevented from so abruptly bending as to impede the How of liquid fromthe shorter to the longer leg, the holder being adjustable to vary thelength of the shorter leg. yThe invention is embodied in theconstruction of the holder hereinafter4 described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciticationf-Figure 1 is a side View, showing a siphon, and a. holder therefor,embodying the invention, the holder being engaged with a supplycontainer shown in section.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary perspective view, showing vthe holder and aportion of the siphon, a portion of the container being shown by dottedlines.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing the longer leg of theSiphon provided with a rose nozzle, the bulb shown byy Figure 1 beingcompressed.

Figure 4 shows the siphon with its holder engaged with a' caskconstituting a supply container, a portion of the latter being shown insection.

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Figure 1.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures.

The siphon shown by the drawings cornprises a normally expanded elasticrubber bulb 12, a receiving tube 13, of elastic rubber, connected at oneend with an .end portion of the bulb, and having a free opposite endadapted to enter a supply container 14,

and a delivering tube 16, of elastic rubber, connected at one end withthe opposite end portion of the bulb.

The receiving tube is elongated and adapted to be bent so that its freeend portion constitutes'the shorter leg of a siphon connected by a neckportion with another portion of the tube which constitutes, with thebulbi'l 12 and the delivering tube 15, the longer leo' of the Siphon.

The ho der is adjustably engaged with the receiving tube 13, and isseparably engageopen hook 17. The holder comprises also a resilient yoke18, which may be a strip of .sheet metal, and includes a bowed centralportion formed to bestride a portion of the supply container and engagedwith oppo-v site ends of the spring 17, to curve the latter and theembraced portion of the tube. One end of the yoke 18 has an eye 19(Figure 2), engaged with one of the end convolutions of the wire member.The bowed portion of the yoke is loosely and separably engageable withthe hook 17al as shown by Figure 2.

The spring 17 is curved by its engagement with the yoke 18, and acts toreinforce the bent neck .portion of the tube and prevent it frombecoming kinked or bent so abruptly as to impede the flow of liquid. Theresilient yoke 18 includes resilient end portions 18, connected by thebowed neck and constituting jaws adapted to bear yieldingly on oppositesurface portions of the supply container, as shown by Figures 1, 2, 3and 4, The neck normally presses the jaws toward cach other.

The arrangement is such that when the holder is engaged with thecontainer, the portion of the receiving tube 13, between the free endthereof and the holder, constitutes a shorter Siphon leg, which isvariable in length by adjustments of the holder on the tube. r

The delivering tube may be temporarily closed, as by pinching it betweena thumb and finger, or between members of a clamp composed of a backmember 21, and a ca'm lever 22, pivoted to ears on the back member, suchclamp being a well known device for compressing a rubber tube.

The bulb 12 is collapsible by the.operato1"shand, as indicated by Figure3. A siphonic flow may be caused when the holder is en-- gaged with thecontainer, and the shorter leg depends therein, by first closing thedelivering tube, then collapsing, and then releasing thieJ bulb, andthen opening the delivering tu e.

The free end of the delivering tube may be adapted to be inserted in abottle or other receiving container, or it may be provided with a rosenozzle 23, as shown by Figure 3, or otherwise adapted for use indelivering liquid siphoned from a container.

The adjustability -of the holder on the receiving tube enables thelength of the shorter leg to be varied, to conform to the depth of thecontainer 14. Said container may be a crock, carboy, can, or otherreceptacle having a mouth at its upper fend, surrounded by a verticalwall portion, as indicated by Figures 1, 2 and 3, or a cask having amouth formed by a bung hole 26, and surrounded by a horizontal wallportion, as shown by Figure 4.

The free end of the receiving tube 13 may be provided with a'. strainer27.

- The bowed neck ofthe yoke acts to normally press the jaws againstopposite sides of the container, or in other words, to tension the jawsso that they conform to the thickness of the containers Wall. When thehook 17n is disconnected from the bowed portion of the yoke, the springstraightens1 so that it is adapted to slide freely on the tube,

and when the hook 17 is engaged with the l neck portion of the yoke,,the spring is curved and caused to conform to the portion of the yokebetween the eye 19 and the midlength of the yoke neck, and the jaws areadapted to be forced apart by a container portion.

I claim:

A holderl for a flexible Siphon tube, coinprising an elongated helicalspring ada'pted to receive a portion of the tube, and provided with anopen hook at one end, and a resilient yoke composed of end portionsconstituting container-grasping jaws, one of said end portions` havingan eye engaged with tbe opposite end of the spring, and a bowed neckresiliently connecting the jaws and normally pressing them toward eachother, so that they are adapted to yieldingly grasp a container wall,the neck being formed to loosely and separably engage the spring hook,the arrangement being such that the spring is practically straight whendisengaged from the yoke, so that it may slide freely on the tube, theengagement of the hook with the yoke iiexing the spring and the'portionof the tube enclosed thereby, and causing the spring and tube portion toconform to the portion of the yoke, between the eye and the midlength oftheyoke neck.

1n testimony whereof I have afixed my signature.

GEORGE V. GAVAZA.

